1848+: Last and First Men

Published on Thursday, July 26, 2012 by Common Dreams In The Land Of Never Was: The Last, Desperate Hours of Climate Chaos Deniers‪ and Capitalist Rah-Rahs‬ by Phil Rockstroh Often, the world… forever unfolding, recombining, morphing, dying and transforming… changes before the mind can grasp the implications of the ongoing alterations. This is the basis [...]

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Published on Friday, July 13, 2012 by Common Dreams The financial crisis that has bred unemployment, austerity, and economic pain across the global for nearly fives years is also battering the reputation of the system many believe to be its main cause: “free market” capitalism. According to a new global poll by Pew Research, only [...]

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Versailles Goes Global Capitalism’s Boundless War http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/07/11/capitalisms-boundless-war/ by ROBERT HUNZIKER The streets of the world’s capital cities are war zones of hopelessness, but as people gather together, this despair transforms into a fierce determination, underlain by great expectations, like in 1848, when the only European-wide collapse of the status quo occurred in the Revolutions of [...]

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Why Marxism is on the rise again http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/04/the-return-of-marxism Capitalism is in crisis across the globe – but what on earth is the alternative? Well, what about the musings of a certain 19th-century German philosopher? Yes, Karl Marx is going mainstream – and goodness knows where it will end Class conflict once seemed so straightforward. Marx [...]

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http://wsws.org/articles/2012/jul2012/tsar-j05.shtml Marxmail The definitive film record of the 1917 Russian Revolution Mehring Books announces release of Tsar to Lenin in DVD format 5 July 2012 Mehring Books is proud to announce the DVD-release of Tsar to Lenin, one of the twentieth century’s greatest film documentaries. Based on archival footage assembled over more than a decade [...]

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Published on Monday, July 2, 2012 by The Independent/UK http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/02-5 How Julian Assange’s Private Life Helped Conceal the Real Triumph of WikiLeaks Without the access to the US secret cables, the world would have no insight into how their governments behave by Patrick Cockburn An extraordinary aspect of the campaign against Assange is that op-ed [...]

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PARIS http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/sunday-review/whats-a-socialist.html?_r=1&ref=world FRANCE has elected its first Socialist president since 1988 and then given the Socialist Party and its closest allies a whopping majority in Parliament. But how Socialist is François Hollande? And what does it mean to be a Socialist these days, anyway? Not very much. Certainly nothing radical. In a sense, socialism was [...]

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